gentoo-overlay/sys-process/dcron/files/dcron-4.5-pidfile.patch

From 14b0f33ebf33d3d08427fd4d9fd4bda3cc107bd0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 01:42:32 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] crond: write a pid file

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
---
 Makefile |    2 +-
 main.c   |    5 +++++
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index dc5b78f..e278312 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ DEFS =  -DVERSION='"$(VERSION)"' \
 		-DTIMESTAMP_FMT='"$(TIMESTAMP_FMT)"'
 
 # save variables needed for `make install` in config
-all: $(PROTOS) crond crontab ;
+all: crond crontab ;
 	rm -f config
 	echo "PREFIX = $(PREFIX)" >> config
 	echo "SBINDIR = $(SBINDIR)" >> config
diff --git a/main.c b/main.c
index e4a742e..6313213 100644
--- a/main.c
+++ b/main.c
@@ -227,6 +227,11 @@ main(int ac, char **av)
 			exit(1);
 		} else if (pid > 0) {
 			/* parent */
+			FILE *fp;
+			if ((fp = fopen("/var/run/crond.pid", "w")) != NULL) {
+				fprintf(fp, "%d\n", pid);
+				fclose(fp);
+			}
 			exit(0);
 		}
 		/* child continues */
-- 
1.7.3.1